Robin Goodwin (Professor)

Profile and interests:

Robin Goodwin is Professor in Psychology and Head of Psychology Department, University of Warwick. His research focuses on the impact of large-scale societal transitions and threats on our relationships with others and our everyday psychological processes. He has a particular interest in the ways in which individual differences combine with group and cultural variations in informing responses to change and threats. Recent projects include a Leverhulme Trust sponsored six-wave prospective study of refugees from the Great East Japan Earthquake (with Tohoku University), an investigation of the impact of the 2015 terror attacks in Paris on interpersonal relationships with family, friends, and the wider Muslim community, and a cross-cultural investigation on the relationship between the everyday social interactions of poultry farmers and the spread of avian influenza in India and China (with Shiv Nadar and Fudan Universities).

Goodwin, R., Palgi, Y., Hamama-Raz, Y. and Ben-Ezra, M. (2013). In the eye of the storm or the bullseye of the media: Social media use during Hurricane Sandy as a predictor of post-traumatic stress. Journal of Psychiatric Research 47 (8) 1099- 1100